Authorz: Philip Kirkland

How shall the seat of Peter bid the Earth Not being meek, as once its law ordained How sits its creed in face of abject…

Wild tempests in your midst would fast retreat Yet gentleness is written in your soul Two parts distinct make this love seem complete Small wonder…

When toil requires our time no more We’ll spend our wage in pleasure’s store With guilt locked in its dismal cell We’ll bid restraint a…

Great minds are daily rampant, they are we That taste and learning heartily espouse In word or art or tone, as it may be For…

Endure the Earth for Heaven’s sake And of her boundless fruit partake Don’t wander lost with aspect grave And pay no heed to roughish knave…

In Zummerzet, oi’m tellin’ ‘ee Ther grows yon zoider-apple tree De yokels ‘ere don’t drink champagne Fer zoider’s ‘ow we made ar name Now, zoider’s…

I fear no artist would me paint In halo borne like to a saint That walks in ringing cloistered halls To whom upon good virtue…

As your devotion you but feign From sermonizing please refrain You bore with your morality If your dimmed eyes could only see You vent your…

What passion does the music stir On wounded or afflicted heart What remedy the strains confer When joy and pleasure both depart How sweet a…

‘Twas fate that brought me to this land Or else, the will of God’s great hand To speak the truth that you hold dear A…

In mists, the bridal veil full falls In shaded woods of temp’rate clime Amid the din of avian calls Where nature forges form sublime First…

Since man first set upon a page His thoughts of passion, joy and rage One theme has always stood above All other matters – that…

For none your privilege shall gainsay To be exalted in your day And more, your oeuvre did withstand The trial of centuries’ strict demand With…

Long hence, when lain in earthy pit My life expired, and what of it? Will mourners mumble platitudes And will my will spark family feuds…

Two drops alike I shall compare As dew and tears strangely share Significance if sought with heed Enwrapped in frail glassy bead Soft touching dew…

Know this, an unfeigned smile will drown The fiery tempest of a frown In truth, such effort costs no fret No mortal’s died from smiling…

Make love and peace your constant aim The two, less one, are not the same Like marriage each is but a part And both, engendered,…

‘Tis said that love with dogged venture wanes Though I am wont to challenge such deceit Enchant in passing years a lustre gains Until spring’s…

Like Icarus, I sometimes feel I’m too close to the sun I spend my life in penitence For things I oughtn’t have done My heart…

O faded night, you once again renew Aroused from slumber, heralding the morn As day, new bless’d with glinting jewel-like dew And lilting song of…